Ceuta remains the whirlwind that can engulf the Spanish Government. The declassification of Intelligence documents to try to prove that the Executive did not receive a clear warning about what could happen at the end of July has provided more information about the events in Ceuta, but it has not resolved the confusion about the behavior of state mechanisms on both sides of the border.

Save yourselves. Hours after the magistrate of the National Court María Tardón requested the Government for the declassified documents on the Ceuta crisis, the Government delegate in the autonomous city, Miguel Ángel Pérez Triano, asked for the head of his Chief of Staff, Gonzalo Sanz, for not informing him earlier about the massive crossing after a member of the National Intelligence Center (CNI) had told him that a call to storm the border was being stirred up on social networks. Sanz – after a meeting of pressures – submitted his resignation yesterday, but in the letter sent to the Government Delegation he wanted to convey, as a warning, two messages that complicate the Government’s narrative: that he did transmit to his boss what the Spanish spy had told him the afternoon before the avalanche and that “there are reports” proving that warnings were made to different ministries.

In April 2017, Josep Lluís Trapero took office as chief of the Mossos in an unusual ceremony at the Palau de la Generalitat. There was overbooking: president Carles Puigdemont, the president of the Parliament Carme Forcadell, vice president Oriol Junqueras, and seven…